WHAT ARE NAZI OBJECTIVES ?

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 6

WHAT ARE NAZI OBJECTIVES ?

THERE has been much comment regarding the real objectives of Hitler and his Nazis. There are reported to be serious differences in the National Socialist Party and a suggestion that Herr Hitler has not been kept fully advised of current happenings. Some interesting remarks on “the riddle of i the international situation” were made recently in the “Spectator.” No one (said the writer) knows what further demands, if any, Herr Hitler has to make, or on whom. Meanwhile I reproduce an estimate of the situation by a very competent—and orthodox Nazi —German. According to him ; Elerr Hitler means what he says when he declares he has no further territorial demands in Europe; he has none; countries like Switzerland can sleep easy; and no visible cause of war between Germany and Britain or France exists; the Polish Corridor is to find an ingenious solution; a vast motor road will “fly-over” the Corridor, thus connecting East Prussia physically with the rest of the Reich (as a matter of fact a similar suggestion, but for a railway rather than a road, was made years ago); Germany, of course, must have South-Eastern Europe for her market, and the colonial question must be settled sooner or later by negotiation, as it no doubt can be. If that survey, coming from a German well qualified to voice the policy of the typical Nazi, does in fact represent Nazi policy and Herr Hitler’s, a working accommodation in

Europe should not be unattainable. It may not be altogether on the lines we should choose, but, at any rate, it gives no excuse for war.